Tribe: Metlakatla Tribe
View Source Document: Metlakatla Indian Community Climate Change Adaptation Plan
Year: 2017
Topic: Testing and monitoring of PST levels to maintain safe and healthy subsistence customs and ensure shellfish remain a staple of the Tribe's diet (View All Topics in the Plan)
Support local, state, and federal research of PSP and PST.
Workshop training fisheries employees to sample HAB’s. This will open the door for PSP testing in the future for the...
Encouragement and enhancement of local scientific testing and monitoring of HAB’s.
The Tribe can arrange for training for fisheries employees to be samplers of HAB’s.
Test shellfish samples on both individual and community level to prevent PSP and PST poisoning.
Placing regulations on harvest collections should be considered.
The Tribe/AISU should provide community outreach on the dangers of HAB’s.